The real but dead past: a reply to Braddon-Mitchell

Forrest, Peter

doi:10.1111/j.0003-2638.2004.00510.x

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“…According to Growing Block theorists (e.g. Broad 1923;Tooley 1997;Forrest 2004), the passage of time consists in the fact that more of the world comes to be as time goes by. 18 Now, the bases for the reduction of presentness that these accounts offer do not comprise essentially dynamic elements.…”

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Recent Trends in the Philosophy of Time: an Introduction to Time and Reality I

Boccardi

2016

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This essay is an introduction to Time and Reality I, the first part of a special issue dedicated to the philosophy of time. Here I outline a number of new trends in philosophical theorizing about time, detailing how the various contributions fit into the picture. I argue that there has been a potentially misleading tendency to separate the debate over the passage of time from the debate over the reality of tense. This has obscured a number of interesting philosophical questions. One of the aims of this volume is to bring these two issues together, where they belong. I argue that many contributions to it go in the right direction. The contributions to this volume also establish uncharted philosophical junctures between Metaphysics, Aesthetics, Morality, and the Philosophy of Mind.

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Recent Trends in the Philosophy of Time: an Introduction to Time and Reality I

Boccardi

2016

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“…One example of this is known as the dead past hypothesis. Forrest (2004;2006) for instance, holds that what sets the objective present apart from the objective past is the presence of incomplete causal processes in the objective present. That something is an incomplete causal process is an extrinsic matter: it depends on the existence of causes that lack effects.…”

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Presentism, Passage, Phenomenology and Physicalism

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2016

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Temporal dynamists argue that we should believe that there exists temporal passage because there being passage is the best explanation for the presence of our temporal phenomenology. Presentists argue that presentism is the best (and perhaps only coherent) version of temporal dynamism. Therefore, conditional on us accepting temporal dynamism, we should accept presentism. In this paper it is argued that if we understand temporal passage as the presentist does, such an argument can succeed only if dualism is true. Thus, we conclude, either presentists should embrace dualism, or they should reject any argument for presentism that proceeds via any such argument for temporal passage that proceeds via considerations of what best explains our temporal phenomenology _____________________________________________________________________________________________________

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“…3-4) writes, the apparent familiarity philosophers of time encounter when reading Aristotle is 'largely deceptive'. Recent defenders include Forrest (2004), Button (2006), and Briggs & Forbes (2016).…”

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The Roots of C. D. Broad’s Growing Block Theory of Time

Thomas

2017

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The real but dead past: a reply to Braddon-Mitchell

Cited by 34 publications

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Recent Trends in the Philosophy of Time: an Introduction to Time and Reality I

Recent Trends in the Philosophy of Time: an Introduction to Time and Reality I

Presentism, Passage, Phenomenology and Physicalism

The Roots of C. D. Broad’s Growing Block Theory of Time

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